Video Misleading
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Summary
The footage does not depict a US base strike in Turkey but a report on Syrian clashes, and a separate crowd clip from Tel Aviv is from a 2025 event, not an Iranian missile attack. Additionally, a video claiming an Iranian missile barrage over Tel Aviv was found to be AI‑generated. All examined clips have been proven false or miscaptioned.
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- Fact Check: Video shows report on clashes in Syria, not strike on US base in Turkey | Reuters
Altunışık said via direct message that he filmed the video the previous day in the Ashrefiye neighbourhood while reporting about the Syrian army’s operation against the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia.
- Fact Check: Old Tel Aviv crowd clip miscaptioned as panic for shelter amid Iran strikes | Reuters
A video of a panicked crowd at a Memorial Day event in Tel Aviv in April 2025 has been misrepresented online as showing people unable to find shelters in Israel amid Iranian missile attacks.
- Reuters Fact Check | Reuters
A video shows a fight in a court building in Pakistan, not during a meeting of Birmingham City Council in Britain, contrary to widely viewed online posts. ... Four images depicting U.S. soldiers captured in Iran were created using AI, according to Google’s SynthID tool, and there is no evidence of Iran having announced that it arrested any U.S. soldiers, as claimed in posts sharing the pictures.
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Lawyers for Kaley pressed Zuckerberg on his claim that Meta's only goal was to create platforms that were useful, something he said naturally led to more usage.
- Minab school bombing: what evidence is there that the US was responsible? | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian
But a growing body of evidence indicates that the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was carried out by the US. Here is what we know – and why it points to the US being responsible. The Shajareh Tayyebeh school was adjacent to a cluster of buildings that form the local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval barracks and support buildings. The Guardian cross-referenced verified videos from the site of the bombing with satellite imagery to confirm the location of the primary school.
- Fact check: Trump’s latest false, unproven and contradictory claims about the Iran war | CNN Politics
But whether it’s Iran or somebody else, the fact that a Tomahawk – a Tomahawk is very generic. It’s sold to other countries. But that’s being investigated right now.” · The US has not sold Tomahawks to Iran. Lewis said that it’s possible Trump was using the word “Tomahawk” as a generic term “like some people use ‘Kleenex,’ to mean any sort of cruise missile, but we have eyes” – and “we can clearly see,” he said, that the missile in the video “doesn’t look like an Iranian cruise missile.”
- Confirmation bias - Wikipedia
One study showed how selective memory can maintain belief in extrasensory perception (ESP). Believers and disbelievers were each shown descriptions of ESP experiments. Half of each group were told that the experimental results supported the existence of ESP, while the others were told they did not. In a subsequent test, participants recalled the material accurately, apart from believers who had read the non-supportive evidence.
- Video nasty - Wikipedia
As well as not passing any film liable to be found obscene, the BBFC imposed additional bans and cuts on films such as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Claims, since proven at best to be speculative, at worst outright media fabrication, relating to the Hungerford massacre and the murder of James Bulger (where the 1991 film Child's Play 3 was erroneously held up as influencing the perpetrators, possibly prompting the 1992 film Mikey to be prohibited in the UK), provided an additional impetus to restrict films and as late as December 1997, the board claimed it "has never relaxed its guidelines on video violence, which remain the strictest in the world".